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USB Flash Drives

Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drives are currently the most common form of portable data storage device. Questions about USB drives belong here.

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of a USB Flash drive?

Items can be moved on and off of them, unlike a CD, when you burn an item, it burns it and no items can be put back onto it. Plus, they are small and portable, unlike a CD. They also come in 16 gigabyte forms, with DVDs only going up to 4.7 gigabytes, and CDs going up to only 750 megabytes.

Which file system is the best choice when formatting a USB flash drive that you plan to use on both a Mac and PC?

For me, and for what I have researched all over the Internet, the best option would be the NTFS file system.

Doing this, you will be able to attach your external hard drive to any Windows computer without any problem, and for Macintosh, as I did, you can download a little free driver from (http://www.ntfs-3g.org/) in order to let your Mac OS X write on your NTFS disk.

It is easier to have this driver installed on your Mac, than install the driver in all the Windows computer you want to copy files from it.

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What is the difference between a USB Flash drive and a thumb drive?

Alright USB is Universal Serial Bus wich is used to connect devices to your comptuer. Now a thumb drive is a very small device that has a varitey of the ammount of storage they can hold. Now Flash Drive sometimes reffered to as Thumb Drive is really fast but cost more and holds less. Now USB hard drives are slow transfer rate but the thumb drive plugs into a USB so im not sure what exactly you mean. Hope this helped :)

How do you make your external hard drive your main hard drive?

I think you would press F2 or some other key to enter the BIOS, Satellite Toshiba press the right arrow during boot up. Normally there is a message on the monitor saying what to do. Once in the BIOS set the boot order to boot from the USB drive, if the OS is on that drive. Some versions of Linux will boot from the CD and do not have to be installed. This is a big help if the hard drive does not work of if you just want to boot from a different OS. Linux and Wndows applications are compatible for all I have seen.

Can a USB port burn out a device?

I recently purchased a Toshiba external hard drive to move some stuff from my daughters tiny 20G HD on her Inspirion 2650. This is a USB 2 device, and I assumed the USB ports on the computer were also. I guess not. I got a message from XP saying the ports couldn't provide enough power to the device. I saw the drive had a socket for a DC power supply, so I plugged in the appropriate voltage wall wart. I immediately smelled burning circuitry, so I unplugged it. The USB ports smell like a burned electrical device and they no longer work when I plug in the USB mouse or a memory stick. I'm going to have to pull the MB and see if I can find a fuse to replace. Anyone done this?

You have burned the USB ports, and i doubt theres a fuse for this.you plugged the AC adapter in so it was getting its full voltage from that plus the extra voltage from your USB and you have fried the circuitry.

How do you download a virus onto a flash drive?

Most flash drives are recognized as a removable drive, therefore can be addressed by virus software applications. Select the removable drive and run your scan.

How many pictures can a USB flash drive 16 GB hold?

That depends on the photos. Several factors determine the size of a photo, including the type of file, size, composition and resolution.

Photos typically run anywhere from 1 to 5 megabytes but can be much smaller and much larger.

If your photos average 4 megabytes you could get about4000 pictures on a 16GB flash drive.

I have 1022mb, and it holds 2706 pic. so 43296 for 16gb

Is 512MB more than 4GB?

No. 2 Gb is 2048 Mb. 2Gb is four times the memory of 512Mb.

How can you uninstall Flash from your mac?

In the Utilities folder within the Applications folder you should find either (or both) a folder called Adobe Installers which will have uninstallers for any Adobe software you have installed or the Adobe Flash Player Install Manager which, when run, will provide an Uninstall button to remove the Flash player from your system.

How do you transfer pictures on computer to usb flash drive?

In order to transfer a movie from a PC to a USB flash drive, you will need to attach the USB drive to your computer. Once you find the movie file on your PC, you will need to select the file and either paste or drag it to the USB drive.

How do you remove write protection from a verbatim store n go mini usb drive?

I have just emailed Verbatim about the same issue with my 16GB device. All other solutions that I have found on the Internet have failed for months now. Keep in touch and if I find a solution (other than buying a new one) I will share the info!!!

Jeremy Keller

nynemout42@gmail.com

What happens when you delete a file from your flash drive?

When you delete files from a removable media the data itself isn't deleted, just the file system pointers that says where the data for those files is located. The area where the deleted file data was stored is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead.

Flash memory storage device that plugs in to a usb port?

Flash memory storage devices that plug into USB ports are commonly referred to as USB thumb drives. USB thumb drives come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and capacities and are often used for transporting files from one computer to another.

What flash drive also known?

It is also called, thumb drive, power drive, and pen drive.

Flash memory drives are an acceptable cross-domain solution?

Yes they work quite well in cross domain environments. With capacities of up to 128Gb they offer huge potential for transportable and readily accessible storage. Life of memory on these devices is uncertain but I have seen some rated to 11 years which is good but not great.

How do you download photos to a flash drive?

Very simple. Most flash drives will install as a Mass Storage Device, meaning they will be assigned a drive letter or default name (if you haven't assigned a name to it in the past).

Using WindowsUsing Windows Explorer, navigate to the folder where the files/folders are located. Select the photos by clicking them. Select multiple files by holding CTRL while you click. Right-click one of the selected files. Choose COPY. Go To START > MY COMPUTER. Here is where all of your drives are located. Your flash drive should be listed here. Double click it. It is usually under REMOVABLE STORAGE. Once in the flash drive, right click on an empty area of the screen (white). Choose PASTE. All done. Using Mac OS X

Using Finder, navigate to the folder where the photo files/folders are located. Select the photos by clicking them. Select multiple files and/or folders by holding CMD while you click, or SHIFT if you are going in sequence (select the first and last items, and Finder will automatically select all of those in between). Right-click one of the selected files. Choose COPY. In Finder's Sidebar (to the left), you should see your various hard drives, such as your flash drive, usually located under the header "Devices." Click once on its name to navigate to that drive in the main pane (the middle section of the window). Once there, right-click on an empty area of the Finder's main pane. Choose PASTE. All done.

Can esata ports work with USB?

Short answer: No. They are different and not compatible.

Long answer: If the USB 2.0 device happens to be a hard drive that also has an esata port, then you could use the esata port instead.

What is the capacity of a USB Flash drive?

Technically speaking there is no set limit, as technology grows - so will the size of a USB Flash drive. ------------ To my knowledge the most memory you can have on a USB flash drive is 256 GB.

How does a flash drive retain memory?

i want to know the programming details about(how does flash memory store the data received) and the tracks that the date move in. it would be great if u could get some pics 4 that..... thanx a lot